Educational device



May 4 1926.

- M. H. UOUGHRIDGE EDUCATIONAL DEVICE Filed July 5; 1922 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 1 N VEN TOR.

May 4', 1926.

7 1,583,061 M. H. LOUGHRIDGE EDUCATIONAL DEVICE Filed July 5. 1922 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 INVENTOR Patented May 4, 1926.

UNITED STATES m'rrnnw n. LOUGEBIDGE, or noeora, nnw inseam nnocn'rronar. nnvrcn.

Application filed. July 5,

To 'all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MA'rrrmw H. LOUGH- men, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Bogota, in the county of Bergen and State of New Jerse have invented certain new and useful mprovements in Educational Devices, of which the following isa specification.

The invention relates to an educational device or game which includes means of'ed'ucation by drawing certain familiar objects and, at the same time, is entertaining and amusing "due to the novelty in the arrangement of the various parts. More particularly, this. invention consists in a series of pictures relating to any particular subject, each divided into a number of parts. One or more of these arts are printed on a sheet and a number of these sheets are bound together in such a way that every part of each picture occupies the same position relative to the other parts of that picture'on that sheet or on the other sheets as it-occupies in the completed picture. That is, every part is so positioned that, when all the parts havebeen traced on a sheet of tracing paper held in fixed relation to the bound sheet or'sheets, each part will match or register with the adjoining parts traced from following or receding sheets and a complete picture will e obtained.

This invention is a development from and an improvement upon application, Serial No. 492,681, filed August 16, 1921, which shows an educational game consisting of sub-divided picture'parts, spread in mixed relation u on a disk which rotates about a centre an may be positioned to enable a complete picture to be drawn from the various parts. In the present invention, no disks are required and no loose parts are neces-v sary. This, however, secures most of the leading features disclosel in the application referred to in a very much less' expensive arrangement which may be produced and published in book form, can be readily transmitted through the mails and forms an ex cellentadvertlsing medium for certain products.

This invention will. be more particularly understood from the following specification and the accompan ing drawin s in which Fig. 1 is an end eevation .of t e invention 1922. Serial No. 573,045-

arranged in book form; Fi 2 shows the results that ma be obtained y the use of this invention an Fig. 3 shows in an elementary form how the picture subjects may be ar- I ranged.

In the application of this invention it is the lntention that the picture subjects be arranged on separate leaves and bound together as indicated by 11, Fig. 1, binding the leaves 16 at 15. The

the hinder or cover cover may be opened like a book and each leaf turned over in the usual manner." On the outer end of the cover at 13 the tracing pad 12 is secured by the cli s or other fasteners 14. It is preferable t at this pad be detachably'secured to the cover so that it 'may be removed when it has been used and a new pad substituted. It will be noted that the pad is attached at the -.oppoeite side from the leaves 16 and, therefore, each leaf of the pad ma be turned back similarly to the leaveso a book and each .lea'f'rnay r be placed over an of the bound leaves 16. There is thus a ed relation between the leaves of the tracing pad and the bound leaves 16 and if the-bound leaves 16 with the picture parts thereon have been correctly registered, a part of a picture may be traced from each 0 the bound leaves on a single sheet of the pad and in this way a finished picture may e built up as shown in Fig. 2.

One way of arranging the icture sub ects is illustrated inelementary fhrm in Fig. 3, consisting of a sheet of paper stock 21, upon which six picture sheets are printed as indicated by-the numerals 1 to 6. After printing, these sheets are cut apart on the verti cal and cross lines as indicatedand may be bound through the perforations 25 or may be made to register correctly on two'edgesat right angles and boundwith a staple.

each divided into six parts. The blank spaces not used may be taken up by additional picture subjects. The letter a has been used as an index mark for the parts of the picture making up an automobile; the letter I) is used as an index mark for the parts of the picture making up an aerolane; the letter 0 for the parts making up a ocomotive; and the letter (Z, for the parts making up a steamship. The picture shown in Fig. 2 is an automobile developed from the parts indicated-by a in Fig. 3. This picture is sub-divided into squares corresponding to the squares in Fig. '3 so that the parts may be easily identified and the part afrom sheet 6 of Fig. -3 is not quite completed asindicated by the hatched lines.

From the foregoing description it will be apparent that when a set of sheets corre sponding to Fig. 3 is correctly bound to-' gether and a sheet of tracing paper is provided in fixed relation to these bound sheets as indicated in Fig. l, in order to draw an automobile, it is necessary to outline the part in square a on sheet 1, the part in square (1 on sheet 2 and similarly to outline the part in square a on the remaining sheets until the automobile is completed. If a locomotive were desired, the

parts in square '0 sheet 2, and so on with the remaining squaresindicated by the letter a each part registering with the adjoining part to form a picture of a locomotive. In the same way an aeroplane may be drawn from the parfi shown in squares b and a. steamship maybe drawn from the parts shown in squares d. When used for advertising purposes, certain printed matter 40 ma be printed on the sheets of" the tracing pa and while the user is tracing the picture, his attention is naturally centered 7 upon the advertising. matter, thus making the device attractive for advertising purposes.

For more advanced subjects such as geography, plortrait work and animal study,

it is desirab e to use at least twelve bound leaves and ofcours'e any leaf may contain several component parts of a picture. For

instance, if twelve bound leaves were used 1 for the mapof the United States, each leaf might contain four States, not necessarily ad oinin thus making up the forty-eight States 0% the country. I 1

Having thus described my invention, I claim:

1. Ina device of the class described, the

combination of a plurality of bound leaves having parts of different pictures inmixed relation thereon, an identification mark for each part and a sheet of tracing paper held in fixed relation to said bound leaves-where by said sheet may be positioned .over. any

.5 leaf to enable a complete picture to be art in 0 square 0 sheet 1 should be traced, t en the each other.

drawn from the various parts according to said identification marks. a Q 2. In a device of the class described, the combination of a plurality of bound leaves havingi parts of a picture on each leaf, an identi cation mark for each part and a sheet of transparent stock held in fixed relation -to said bound leaves and capable of'being positioned over any leaf to enable a, complete picture to be drawn on said transparent stock by tracing said parts.

3. In a device of the class described, the combination of a plurality of bound leaves havin parts of different pictures on each leaf, 1dentification marks characteristic to each picture for said parts and a sheet of transparent stock held in fixed relation to said bound leaves and capable of being positioned over any leaf to enable a picture to be drawn on said transparent stock by tracing the part having the same characteristic mark.

'4. In a device of the class described, the combination of a plurality of bound leaves having parts of a picture on each leaf, said .parts arranged on each leaf with relation to the position of'the. parts on the other leaves, a sheet of transparent stock held in fixed relation to said bound leaves and capable of being positioned over any leaf .to

- enablea picture to be drawn by tracing said parts on each leaf. on said transparent stock,

5. In a device of. the class described, the combination of a plurality of bound leaves having parts of different pictures on each leaf, said parts arranged on each leaf with relation to the position of parts of the corresponding pictures on other leaves, an identification mark. for each of said parts and I a sheet of transparent stock held in fixed 1 relation to said bound leavesand capable of being positioned over any leaf to enable a picture to be drawn on said transparent stock by tracing said parts accordlng to said identification marks. 4

6. In a device of the class described, the combination of a plurality of bound leaves having partsof a picture on each leaf, a pad of tracing paper held infixed relation to said bound leaves, each sheet of said pad capable of bein placed over any of said bound leaves, w ereby a complete picture may be traced on said tracing sheet from said parts. 7. In a device of the class described, the combination of a plurality of bound leaves having parts of a picture ,on each leaf po-. sitioned with relation to the parts of the same picture .on other leaves,a pad of tracing paper held in fixed relation .to said bound leaves, eachsheet of said pad capable" of being placed overany of said bound leaves and means enabling said parts to/be drawn on said sheet in proper relation" to 8. In a device of the class described, the said pad capable of being placed over any combination of a cover containing a pluof sand bound leaves and means enabling rality of bound leaves, a portion of a picsaid parts to be drawn on said sheet in 10 ture on each of said leaves positioned with properrelation to each other. i

5 relation to the other portions of the same In testimony whereof I have aflixed my picture on other leaves, a pad of tracing signature. paper secured to said cover, each sheet of MATTHEW H. LOUGHRIDGE. 

